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Extrapolations from nuclei to neutron stars hinge on the symmetry term in nuclear binding formulas. The term describes reduction in the binding associated with neutron-proton (np) imbalance. Regrettably, binding formulas in the literature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Danielewicz

In this theoretical study, we establish a correlation between the neutron skin thickness and the nuclear symmetry energy for the even$-$even isotopes of Fe, Ni, Zn, Ge, Se and Kr within the framework of the axially deformed self-consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-28 M. Bhuyan , B. V. Carlson , S. K. Patra , Shan-Gui Zhou

We determine an empirical dense matter equation of state from a heterogeneous dataset of six neutron stars: three type I X-ray bursters with photospheric radius expansion, studied by Ozel et al., and three transient low-mass X-ray binaries.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrew W. Steiner , James M. Lattimer , Edward F. Brown

Nuclear symmetry energy is a fundamental quantity currently under intense investigation in both nuclear physics and astrophysics. The {\it softness} or {\it stiffness} of symmetry energy is still under debate and the extraction of symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-11 Shuo Yang , Ruijia Li , Chang Xu

The nuclear symmetry energy plays a key role in determining the equation of state of dense, neutron-rich matter, which governs the properties of both terrestrial nuclear matter as well as astrophysical neutron stars. A recent measurement of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Elias R. Most , Carolyn A. Raithel

The structure and composition of the inner crust of neutron stars, as well as global stellar properties such as radius and moment of inertia, have been shown to correlate with parameters characterizing the symmetry energy of nuclear matter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-12 William G. Newton , Michael Gearheart , Josh Hooker , Bao-An Li

Instead of parameterizing the pressure-density relation of a neutron star (NS), one can parameterize its macroscopic properties such as mass ($M$), radius ($R$), and dimensionless tidal deformability ($\Lambda$) to infer the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Bhaskar Biswas , Sayak Datta

A study of properties of the symmetry energy of nuclei is presented based on density functional theory. Calculations for finite nuclei are given so that the study includes isospin dependent surface symmetry considerations as well as isospin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 S. J. Lee , A. Z. Mekjian

The nuclear symmetry energy plays a key role in determining the equation of state (EoS) of dense, neutron-rich matter, which connects the atomic nuclei with the hot and dense matter in universe, thus has been the subject of intense…

We examine relations among the parameters characterizing the phenomenological equation of state (EOS) of nearly symmetric, uniform nuclear matter near the saturation density by comparing macroscopic calculations of radii and masses of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazuhiro Oyamatsu , Kei Iida

Energy in nuclear matter is, in practice, completely characterized at different densities and asymmetries, when the density dependencies of symmetry energy and of energy of symmetric matter are specified. The density dependence of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pawel Danielewicz , Jenny Lee

Based on the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model (SHF) as well as its extension (the Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU (KIDS) model) and the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model, we have studied the constraints on the parameters of the nuclear matter equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Jia Zhou , Jun Xu , Panagiota Papakonstantinou

We extend a recent chiral approach to nuclear matter by including the most general (momentum-independent) NN-contact interaction. Iterating this two-parameter contact-vertex with itself and with one-pion exchange the emerging energy per…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Fritsch , N. Kaiser

Significant progress has been made in recent years in constraining nuclear symmetry energy at and below the saturation density of nuclear matter using data from both terrestrial nuclear experiments and astrophysical observations. However,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Farrukh J. Fattoyev , William G. Newton , Chang Xu

We study a particular class of relativistic nuclear energy density functionals in which only nucleon degrees of freedom are explicitly used in the construction of effective interaction terms. Short-distance (high-momentum) correlations, as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Niksic , D. Vretenar , P. Ring

The saturation density of nuclear matter $\rho_0$ is a fundamental nuclear physics property that is difficult to predict from fundamental principles. The saturation density is closely related to the interior density of a heavy nucleus, such…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz , Brendan Reed

Properties of nuclear matter are investigated in the framework of relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock model with the latest high-precision charge-dependent Bonn (pvCD-Bonn) potentials, where the coupling between pion and nucleon is adopted…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Chencan Wang , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang , Hong Shen

The recently published CREX results suggest a rather peculiar picture for the density dependence of the symmetry energy. Whereas PREX favors a large neutron skin thickness in $^{208}$Pb, thereby suggesting a stiff equation of state, CREX…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-01 Brendan T. Reed , F. J. Fattoyev , C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

Symmetry energy terms from macroscopic mass formulae are investigated as generalized polarizabilities of nuclear matter. Besides the neutron-proton (n-p) symmetry energy the spin dependent symmetry energies and a scalar one are also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Fabio L. Braghin

Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities is available. To constrain the…